Aliquot

//ˈæl.ɪ.kwɒt// adj, noun, verb, slang

adj, noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A portion of a total amount (of some substance or a sample or specimen thereof, usually a solution or suspension). broadly

    "Meronym: subaliquot"

  2. 2
    an integer that is an exact divisor of some quantity wordnet
  3. 3
    A portion of a total amount (of some substance or a sample or specimen thereof, usually a solution or suspension).; Such a portion that divides evenly into the total with no remainder. broadly

    "Meronym: subaliquot"

Verb
  1. 1
    To separate a volume of solution or suspension into aliquots. informal, transitive

    "1994, Patricia Viola Racenis, Phosphatidate Biosynthesis in the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, University of Michigan, page 34, The nuclear pellet was resuspended in homogenizing buffer (about 25 ml), aliquoted into Eppendorf tubes and stored at -80°C."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Contained in the whole an integral number of times, a factor or divisor. not-comparable

    "1794, George Adams (Jr), Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy, Considered in its Present State of Improvement. Describing, in a Familiar and Easy Manner, The Principal Phenomena of Nature, and Shewing, That They All Co-operate in Displaying the Goodness, Wisdom, and Power of God, If, therefore, every aliquot diviſion produced a ſenſible effect by it's vibration, we ſhould hear in every muſical ſtring an infinite variety of chords, diſſonant and conſonant, in ſharp and flat keys at the ſame time."

Adjective
  1. 1
    signifying an exact divisor or factor of a quantity wordnet

Synonyms

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fractionalalgorismicalgorithmicaliquantaliquot partarithmetical

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"1794, George Adams (Jr), Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy, Considered in its Present State of Improvement. Describing, in a Familiar and Easy Manner, The Principal Phenomena of Nature, and Shewing, That They All Co-operate in Displaying the Goodness, Wisdom, and Power of God, If, therefore, every aliquot diviſion produced a ſenſible effect by it's vibration, we ſhould hear in every muſical ſtring an infinite variety of chords, diſſonant and conſonant, in ſharp and flat keys at the ſame time."

Etymology

From French aliquote, from Latin aliquot.

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